WPA Sewing Room 10 Open Here Monday
A Works Progress Administration sewing room project will begin Monday to employ about 15 women from relief households. Machines were brought from Tom Bean and set up on the city building's second floor. Miss Mildred Holcomb will lead the project, replacing Mrs. Will Reeves. The program traces back to Whitewright and Tom Bean moves, with local funding and city sponsorship reinstated by the Whitewright City Commission to provide quarters, lights and fuel.
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Works Progress Administration
Tom Bean
Mildred Holcomb
Will Reeves
Whitewright
Whitewright City
County to Start Surface Work on Farm Roads Soon
County Engineer H M Scott will order asphalt for a road blacktopping program in Grayson County. Work may begin the week of May 10 on East Main street from Denison to Carpenter's Bluff, with grading and gravel complete on several strips. Additional summer projects include surfacing from Pottsboro to Whitesboro and other county roads.
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H. M. Scott
Grayson County
S. B. Vaughan
Denison
East Main Street
Mr. Vaughan
Carpenter’s Bluff
Pottsboro
Whitesboro
Loy Park
the Park
Sherman
Bethel
Tioga
Texas
Vaughan
Teachers Relax As New Machine To Grade Papers
ATHENS GA A machine that corrects and grades true false or selective exam papers is demonstrated by F S Beers of the University of Georgia system He explains the device uses conductive pencil marks and a meter shows the grade as papers are inserted Electrode blades determine correct answers and the first twenty five machines are being built for top universities.
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Athens
F. S. Beers
University System of Georgia
Beers
Farm program economy awaits chief's return
Congressional leaders said they would await President Roosevelt return before deciding how much of the farm program will be shelved by economy demands. The House agriculture committee has delayed the $100,000,000 crop insurance bill. both houses have yet to act on farm tenancy aids. The Bible has been translated in whole or in part into 991 languages and dialects.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Wallace
White House
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Drilling for gas in Whitewright finds leak near sewer
Lone Star Gas Company workers test gas mains in Whitewright using electric drills under paving in the business district. A bad leak was discovered this morning beneath the pavement near a sewer manhole on North Bond Street.
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Lone Star Gas Company
Whitewright
Bond Street
Big Winter Wheat Crop Is Forecast
Chicago experts forecast the 1937 winter wheat harvest at about 650 million bushels, the largest since 1931, despite belt deterioration last month. Area seeded to spring wheat is projected at 22.614 million acres, above prior government estimates. 1936 spring wheat yield was 519 million bushels.
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Chicago
United States
Department of Agriculture
Texan Against Soil Conservation Cut
Chairman Jones of Texas on the House Agriculture Committee opposed any economy move that would reduce the 500 million dollar appropriation for the Soil Conservation Act in 1938. The House had included the item in the Agriculture Department appropriation bill, now in the Senate. Farmers are paid benefits for soil conservation practices, and Jones urged continuation of the program.
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Washington
Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
House
Agriculture Department
Senate
Dallas W. O. W. Drill Team To Work Here
A uniformed 16 member drill team from W. O. W. Camp No. 1 Dallas will confer the initiatory degree on 25 candidates next Wednesday night. A. R. Sanderson, secretary, announced the event. W. S. Forbis of Dallas and Sidney Williams of Waxahachie are expected to attend, with Claud Dillon as council commander.
Roosevelt Court Plan Survives House Vote Endorsement
In Austin the House approved a resolution backing the President’s Supreme Court plan and his broader program, urging Congress not to alter dollar gold content. The omnibus petition to Congress passed 87 to 39 as debate continued, while the Senate opposed expanding the court membership.
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Austin
House
Supreme Court
Congress
Senate
Measure to Help the Mentally Ill Becomes Law
Governor James V. Allred signed a House bill by L. M. Kenyon and others enabling temporary commitment of mentally ill individuals without a jury trial. The statute stems from a constitutional amendment approved in August 1935 and allows a county judge to commit a person for up to ninety days based on physician reports after examination.
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Austin
James V. Allred
L. M. Kenyon
Yearbooks Printed for Local Literary and Music Clubs
The Sun printing dept. finished yearbooks for the Friday Literary Club and Whitewright Music Club covering the year from October. Friday book has green tweed cover with pink silk. Music Club book has white tweed and green silk. Club officers and yearbook committees for both groups are listed with titles and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Commercial Printing Department
Friday Literary Club
Whitewright Music Club
Music Club
Friday Literary
C. P. Johnson
Ross May
Emmet Penn
Emory Christian
R. P. Childress
C. J. Meador
A. L. Jackson
H. T. Atterberry
Lena Mae Gowdy
N. L. Manning
J. B. Hamilton
H. P. Donigan
Jack Lackey
Guy Hamilton
H. W. Key
Weldon Binion
J. C. McMillin
Newton Manning
Jewel Kennemer
Maytime at Palace Theatre Spotlight Tonight and Friday
Feature picture at the Palace Theatre tonight and Friday is Maytime starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald. Saturday presents Gene Autry in The Old Corral followed by Nancy Steele Is Missing preview and Monday. Tickets for bargain nights Tuesday and Wednesday feature Criminal Lawyer with Lee Tracy and Margot Grahame. Thursday and Friday next week showcase Swing High Swing Low with Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.
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Palace Theatre
Nelson Edy
Jeanette McDonald
Gene Autrey
Baby in a Bag Spawns Ventiloquist Chase
In New York a ventriloquist, Thomas L Meister, was chased by detectives after a baby cried from a black zipper bag carried on a subway platform. Police alarms led to his apprehension as he claimed to be practicing ventriloquism.
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New York
Joseph Piazza
Thomas L. Meister
New School Head Elected at Trenton
Trenton school board elected Roy Clendenning as superintendent to succeed H. D. Neff and Orville Green as principal replacing James W. Lan thrip. Clendenning currently heads Smithfield in Tarrant County and Green heads Gober in Fannin County. All other faculty members were re elected.
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Trenton
Roy Clendenning
H. D. Neff
Orville Green
James W. Lanthrip
Clendenning
Smithfield
Tarrant County
Green
Gober
Fannin County
Slow Poison for Ants and Pest Advice from Dallas
A Dallas bulletin summarizes entomologist D. E. W. Laake guidance on pest control. For Argentine ants a slow poison is recommended to avoid alerting others, while cockroaches should be treated with boric acid and plaster of Paris to minimize risks to children and pets. Termites require permanent protection using metal shields and impregnated lumber.
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Dallas
D. E. W. Laake
Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Texas shares relief fund totals for 1935 37 period
Texas received 199,928,874.42 from emergency relief acts 1935 1936 for period through March 31 1937. Expenditures totaled 169,108,503.36 leaving 30,820,371.06. Personal services 63,544,154.37. grants 62,874,235.76. rural resettlement 16,308,407.31. interstate roads 44,689,026.09. public buildings 10,879,567.45. education 10,426,278.99. conservation 24,550,505.65.
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San Antonio
Texas
H. P. Drought
National Emergency Council
Mitchell Wins Pulitzer for Gone with the Wind Novel
Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Gone with the Wind, earning $1,000. She described her reaction as astounded, then overwhelmed, after Columbia University trustees announced the award alongside other journalism and letters honors.
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New York
Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
Georgia
Miss Mitchell
John R. Marsh
Columbia University
Moss Hart
George S. Kaufman
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis
Anne O’hara McCormick
New York Times
John J. O'Neill
New York Herald-Tribune
William L. Laurence
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Gobind Behairi Lal
Clock Turns On Lights And Radio In Farmersville
W T Allman a miller from Farmersville has built an alarm clock gadget that switches on room lights and starts the radio to ease early rising. He has also designed an automatic switch for lighting a gas heater for cold months. He hints at a device to pull him out of bed next.
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Farmersville
W. T. Allman
Allman
Fairchild Estimates U.S. Cotton Acreage in 1937
New York reports Fairchild Bureau projects US cotton acreage at 35,023,000 for 1937, up from 32,970,000 in the first report last year. About 45 percent of the crop is planted, versus 36 percent a year ago, statistician Herbert Caterson said.
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Fairchild
New York
Fairchild Bureau
United States
Herbert Caterson
Final date set for work sheets in 1937 program
The Texas Agricultural Conservation Committee, chaired by Geo Slaughter, set May 15 as the final date to accept worksheets for the 1937 program. About 240,000 worksheets are expected, including 15,000 covering ranches with 53 million acres in range conservation. Sign-up is three months ahead of 1936. farmers should apply now to avoid exclusion.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural Conservation Committee
Geo. Slaughter
Slaughter
Farmers discuss their problems in Grayson meeting
About 200 farmers gathered in Sherman for a Grayson County agricultural organization meeting. E. B. Scott of Tom Bean was named president and John Perry of Sherman County State Bank was elected secretary as the group seeks continued federal crop aid. The speakers addressed AAA soil conservation parity prices and possible federal economy measures affecting farmer benefits.
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Mr. Perry
Earl Winn
Sherman
P. W. Howell
Collinsville
B. F. Gray
Nation reports tenant farmers a minority in the nation
New York. The agriculture committee of the National Association of Manufacturers releases a survey stating real farm tenants are no more than 24 percent of US farmers, trimmed to 15 percent when kinfolk rents are excluded. The South hosts most tenants with 1,831,475 of 2,865,155 farmers renting soil. Sharecroppers excluded. The committee rejects the idea of a nationwide tenant angst rise, noting farm owners and farms increased more since 1930.
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New York
Agriculture Committee of the
National Association of Manufacturers
United States
South
America
Suspect in Slaying Returned to Bonham
A 36-year-old Fannin County farmer was sent back to Bonham to face a murder charge in the Oct. 9 slaying of A. D. Jones near Bonham. Rangers said evidence is circumstantial and the accused was the last man seen with Jones. Jones was found beaten with an iron pipe two miles south of Bonham. $280 missing suggested robbery.
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Fort Worth
Fannin County
Bonham
Texas Rangers
A. D. Jones
Henry Chaney
Buster Cole
Fred L. McDaniel
Jones
Census finds first drop in public school enrollments
The office of education reported a declining birth rate leads to the first decline in public school enrollment in U. S. history. An estimate shows about 130000 fewer children in grade and high schools last fall than two years ago when 26434193 enrolled.
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Washington
Office of Education
Honor Students of Grammar School Recognized
Grammar School honors include Dorotha Darwin with 95 percent and Mary Dale King with 95 5 12 percent as valedictorian and salutatorian. Others above 90 are Betty Atkinson Mary Alice Harrison Velma Holland and Morris Fogle Gillett. American Legion medals go to Mary Alice Harrison and Morris Fogle Gillett for courage character service companionship and scholarship as voted by seventh graders and staff. Mary Alice is the second Harrison to win the medal, following Charles Harrison two years earlier.
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N. L. Manning
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Dale King
Betty Atkinson
Mary Alice Harrison
Velma Holland
Morris Fogle Gillett
The
American Legion
Mary Alice
Harrison
Charles Harrison
Late Adjournment of Legislature is Present Prospect
AUSTIN. Legislature adjournment soon after 120 days appeared unlikely as the House rejected May 11 and May 14 adjournment dates 71 to 59. Debate centered on keeping or delaying adjournment to salvage legislation, with May 22 floated for final adjournment and as yet unacted on in the Senate. Members warned that a sine die move would grant the Senate leverage, while others urged finishing work on appropriation bills before quitting.
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Penrose Metcalfe
Senate
Harry
N. Graves
Appropriations Committee
Metcalfe
Jones
House
E. H. Thornton
R. L. Reader
R. H. Wood
Fannin pension head alters Bonham office days
Lester Stallings director of old age assistance in Fannin County said he will be in Bonham on Monday only, effective immediately, with contact available by phone at his Leonard home. He previously kept offices in both towns. The piece ends with unrelated potato and turnip paring guidance.
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Leonard
Lester Stallings
Fannin County
Bonham
Stallings
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WPA
Denison Herald
Alfred
Palace
Merry Chase
Texas’ Share Relief Fund
AAA
Fannin
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